Bsy Home BSY Noni is a 2000 year old tropical secret that helps the body to heal itself. It lowers high blood pressure, fights cancer, reduces arthritis symptoms/pain, improves immune function, enhances cellular health and promotes general health. It is also widely used for improving the cellular functions and functions of the heart, brain, liver and skin, for controlling diabetes, for inhibiting cancerous cell-growth, reducing pain and for several other wellness purposes. Names and History Noni is the Hawaian name of the plant Morinda Citrifolia of the genus Morinda of the family Rubiaceae. In India it is the Indian Mulberry, in Malaysia it is Mengkudo, in Vietnam it is Grand Morinda, in Australia it is Cheesefruit, in Africa it is Bumbo, in the Caribbean islands it is Painkiller Tree, in Guam it is Lada, in Tahiti and Raratonga it is Nono, etc. As it is the Hawaiian noni that is used for the products that our parent company produce and that we market, a word on the Hawaiian noni would not be out of place. Out of the 80 existing species of Morinda genus, only 20 are of any economic worth. Of these twenty, with its conspicuous features, multiple uses, supreme ability to distribute itself on sea coasts without human aid and its great medicinal efficacy, the Hawaiian noni is considered the ‘Queen of the Morinda Genus’. It is widely accepted that noni originated in South East Asia and reached the eastern region of Polynesia. Polynesian settlers must have carried noni from their homeland to Hawaii about 1500 years ago. They must have taken the plant with them for its various uses – its bark for a red dye, its roots for a yellow dye, its fruit as food and its leaves, fruits and bark as powerful medicines for several diseases and health problems. Description Hawaiian Noni is a small, blossoming shrub with rounded branches and dark, glossy evergreen leaves that measure approximately a foot in length. Bunches of small white flowers sprout at different times and evolve into bumpy egg-shaped fruits that are a few inches long and etched with circular indentations. The yellowish white skin of the fruit, which is waxy and opaque, becomes more translucent as it ripens and the tasteless, whitish pulp turns into a smelly semi-liquid that seeps through the skin of the fruit. Chemical Constituents The leaf contains anthraquinones, glycosides, phenolic compounds, resins, B-sitosterol and ursolic acid, besides several amino acids like alanine, arginine, aspartic acids, cysteine, systine, glycine, glutamic acid, histidine, leucine, isoleucine, methionine, phenylalanine, proline, setine, threonine, tryptophan, tyrosine and valine. The flower contains acacetin, glucophyranoside, dimethyl apigenin, galactophyranoside. dimethoxy methyl anthroquinone, rhamnosyl glucophyranoside, etc and the fruit contains antioxidants, alizarin, anthraquinones. aucubin, caprolic and caprylic acids, proxeronine, damnacanthol, essential oils, B-D-glucopyranose pentaacetate, asperuloside tetra acetate, glucose and ascorbic acid. The root and root bark contain carbonate, rubicholric acid, chrysophanol, magnesium, sodium, morinadadiol, resins, sterols, chlorubin, soranjidol, phosphate, ferric iron, glycosides, morindine and rubiadine. Pharmacological observations Compounds found in the fruit portion exhibit antimicrobial action against Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhi, shigella paradysenteriae and Staphylacoccus aureaus. Compounds found in the root have the ability to reduce swollen mucous membrane and lower blood pressure. Proxeronine, an alkaloid constituent of the fruit, prompts the production of Xeronine in the body, which is thought to be helpful in cancer treatment. Noni influences almost all body systems including circulatory, digestive, respiratory, integumentary, endocrine, immune-related, nervous and skeleta
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